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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The State of Connecticut Says You Have a Right to Know What’s in Your Food, and More
Thom Hartmann comments on the news for Friday, December 13, 2013.
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How Do You Destroy a Presidency?
If you want to completely crash the economy, the best way to do it is to slash government spending.
Five Ways Conservative Politics Promotes Freeloading and Shirking
Corporate conservatives want special rules that let them privatize profits and socialize losses.
Impossible Dialogue: The Choice in Yemen
Yemenis might find themselves back on the street, repeating the original demands that echoed in the countryu2019s many impoverished cities, streets and at every corner.
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The Facts Are in: Austerity Politics Doesn’t Work
From England's double-dip recession to Portugal's spiking unemployment, there is now conclusive evidence of the complete failure of austerity.
Gaza is Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, but something far more sinister is brewing.
The American Way of Manners, Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on the Etiquette of War, Nuclear Threats, and Surveillance
Many publications have advice columnists, but none has our old friend Colonel Manners. His assignment: to answer questions from Americans puzzled by the abstruse intricacies of the American way …
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Henry A. Giroux | Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism
Increasingly, young people are becoming more willing to cross boundaries, join questions of understanding and power, and bring into being new ways of engaging with the world.
Aftermath – The Vulgarity of Empire
The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed. The indefatigable vulgarity of Lyndon Baines Johnson made unfavourable comparison inevitable.